The Gundam 00 Movie Is the Comedy of the Year

Setsuna having the same hairstyle as his movie counterpart is only the tip of the iceberg. :p

When I heard a bit more about the Gundam 00 movie at Anime Expo a couple of years back, I was looking forward to it. While in retrospect, Gundam 00 isn’t as good as some other Gundam series, I nonetheless enjoyed it and have actually watched it more than once. (And I suppose I’ll always be fond of it to a certain extent since it was my gateway Gundam.) But some initial reviews poured in after the movie was shown in various places (most notably Mike Toole’s article at ANN), and the feedback was not great, to say the least. So my expectations were lowered considerably heading into the movie, which is why I can safely say that I still thought it blew huge chunks.

But there is enjoyment to be had from the Gundam 00 movie! This is because it is secretly the best anime comedy that will be released in 2011. Let us count the oh so very many ways it is hilarious!

First off, the movie within the movie is actually legitimately funny. I especially enjoyed Alejandro embracing his destiny and becoming a full-fledged super robot villain even though he was at least halfway there in season one. A close second is the movie’s Celestial Being including a new glasses guy, a girl and a black dude. Fantastic.

But perhaps funnier than the movie is . . .

SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS SAJI. HE IS DEFINITELY NOT LIKE EVERY OTHER CHARACTER OF HIS TYPE IN EVERY OTHER GUNDAM. Speaking of useless characters, who else enjoyed acting as if anyone should give a shit about Marina’s opinion when she spent season two babysitting kids and being a homeless man’s Elton John. But, hey, leader of an entire nation and everything.

Now, I’d stopped taking the movie seriously long before this point (I actually took the movie seriously for about three minutes before giving up), but if I hadn’t, then this would have done it. I mean, we’ve got a Ribbons clone channeling the guy in the suit from E.T., and unleashing the pseudo-antagonist of the movie, ELS, on a poor, unsuspecting teenage girl. I’m shocked tentacles weren’t involved in this scene. But, hey, why have tentacles when you can be a crystallized alien life form? That’s my motto.

This scientist, I think, is a reaction to how thoroughly BLfied Gundam 00 is. People wanted to like Nena Trinity without the stigma of her being a humongous bitch, so after killing her off in the second season they just introduced someone who looks almost exactly like her (just with darker hair) and is also voiced by Rie Kugimiya, but is DEFINITELY NOT NENA TRINITY NO SIR. I have to wonder if they were also aiming to piss off the people who ship Billy with Graham or something. That’s not the reason for her existence, of course, since she is a Very Serious Scientist who knows a lot about science and also happens to be hot ‘n’ horny for Billy.

It’s Ribbons getting hit with a chair. There’s no way this isn’t hilarious. I defy anyone to not laugh during this scene. Can’t be done.

This is No. 2 in the “Gundam 00 movie moments that are actually legit funny” list. Patrick in pajamas is just too hilarious. He’s also the Hunchback of Notre Dame, apparently.

HAHAHAHA I was going to pass on this one but might check it out now, considering it was actually a comedy and all. They definitely pushed it too far with Kugumiya’s character… I hated ALL the Trinities…

It’s hilarious how in the Celestial Being movie Tiera was turned into a black guy and Haptism into a pink-haired loli. They’re REALLY not into historical accuracy then, given only movie Setsuna looked even vaguely close to the real Setsuna.

The pure disapproval for this movie has reached such levels that I HAVE to watch this thing. I’ll fairly give this movie a shot, but usually my opinions don’t vary too greatly from most people I know. If this is really as bad as everyone says, then I look forward to hurling into the bucket I’ll have waiting at the side of my desk.

[…] Gundam 00 is an entertaining movie, no question, but if you’re looking for cerebral entertainment (not that some people won’t try to interpret things in an ‘educated’ manner just for argument’s sake) this isn’t the movie to watch. Much like the Nanoha 1st movie, you watch this for the pretty explosions and light shows caused by mobile suits spamming beam weaponry against their enemies. You do NOT watch for the plot, as the movie was pretty much almost 70% (high quality animated) fast-paced battle after battle. […]

This movie was alright kind of boring to me, I had more fun with the side characters than the main cast. Not so sure I was sold on the aliens being thrown in randomly but sort of saw that coming anyway with the whole Jupiter thing.

The first thing that sprang in my mind about tierra’s hologram projection is…. A fairy. No. Its tinkerbell guiding the man who refused to grow- his hair.

Its kinda sad how the show throw away any sense of realism at the second season. I mean, its an eye candid bishounen meccha porn during season one. It defeats seed and seed destiny(UGH) in terms of originality and animation quality….. Then there’s the virus influenza of alternate universe gundams….. The super robot dilemna.

The worse part of it, I recently watched it after my marathon of Gundam unicorn. So could you imagine how painful it is to be subjected to a 180 degrees polar shift of mood?

I would rather have a rewatch of char’s counterattack rather than this shit. Almost on the same level of shittiness as endless waltz. Oh, they replaced the fancy gay crap feather gundam with a sparkling pixie dust. Shit just get serious eh, sunrise????